Popular Culture in Social Sciences
epub |eng | 2010-09-21 | Author:Greil Marcus
Little Voice, directed by Mark Herman (Miramax, 1998). Pleasantville, directed by Gary Ross (New Line, 1998). Bob Dylan, “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,” from The Times They Are A-Changin’ ...
( Category:
Country & Folk
May 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-05-12 | Author:Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
And so it was that David Lee Roth and King Solomon both engaged in a fruitful bit of game theory—which, narrowly defined, is the art of beating your opponent by ...
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Creativity & Genius
May 14,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2013-05-07 | Author:Nina Blackwood & Mark Goodman & Alan Hunter & Martha Quinn & Gavin Edwards
Martha: We were ecstatic when “Billie Jean” got added—art trumped format. What we didn’t see at the time was how it was the foot in the door to expanding the ...
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Composers & Musicians
May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-27 | Author:Will Ferguson
Or jumping off the garage into a pile of leaves he'd just raked. Laura had spent three weeks with her ankle in a cast after that misadventure. Warren had been ...
( Category:
Biographies
May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-04-30 | Author:Steven D. Levitt
A child who had a low birthweight tends to do poorly in school. It may be that being born prematurely is simply hurtful to a child’s overall well-being. It may ...
( Category:
Theory
May 7,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-15 | Author:Geoffrey Gray
He runs through a wheat field. He runs along a road and when the flash of headlights finds him he jumps in a ditch. He waits, gets up, and runs. ...
( Category:
Hoaxes & Deceptions
May 6,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-25 | Author:Prabhakar, Hitha [Prabhakar, Hitha]
Organized Retail Crime and Latin America In the past, terrorist financing usually came from the proceeds of drug sales, among other illicit transactions such as diamond sales, often utilized by ...
( Category:
Economics
March 30,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-29 | Author:David Kirkpatrick
10 Privacy “You have one identity.” How much of ourselves should we show the world? It’s an important question Facebook forces us to confront. Do I want you to know ...
( Category:
Company Profiles
March 30,2014 )
epub |eng | 2000-12-15 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson [Thompson, Hunter S.]
Willow Cove was a natural Dunkirk. I watched the two remaining deputies; the moment they left, I was leaving too. . . their departure could only mean that things had ...
( Category:
Organized Crime
March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Henry James
She has meanwhile probably her hours of amazement at the size of her windfall; she cannot quite live without wonder at the oddity of her so "sleeping" partner, the strange ...
( Category:
Anthologies
March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2002-01-01 | Author:Jonathan Kellerman [Kellerman, Jonathan]
CHAPTER 24 Milo woke up early the next morning, with the faces of the men at the Sangre de Leon meeting leering in his head. Thinking: Too many ways to ...
( Category:
Murder
March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jonathan Gottschall
VIRTUE REWARDED The Greek philosopher Plato banished poets and storytellers from his ideal republic for, among other sins, peddling immoral fare. And Plato’s was just the first in a long ...
( Category:
Biology
March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-07-25 | Author:Timothy Wyllie
I recall an early and telling welcome to Manhattan as a couple of us were driving south on Park Avenue in the low 50s. It was lunchtime and traffic was ...
( Category:
Social Psychology & Interactions
March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Jennifer Hecht [Jennifer Michael Hecht]
13 Eating In the medieval West, on feast days, people gorged themselves in animalistic sensualism. In periods of fast they rejected food, sex, and physical effort as antithetical to holiness. ...
( Category:
Philosophy
March 26,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1986-01-01 | Author:Peter Matthiessen [Matthiessen, Peter]
14. The East Hampton Town Baymen’s Association On a September day four or five years ago, coming ashore at Montauk Lake from a day’s fishing, I saw a familiar figure ...
( Category:
Fishing
March 26,2014 )
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